The Valley of Lagoons: A rehearsal for Canberra?

Abstract

On an English spring evening in 1856 two young men were engaged in an animated discussion in the common-room of All Souls, that Oxford college where, without distractions of undergraduates, some of Britains' finest intellects devote themselves to research and thought. Failing to reach agreement, they called for the College Betting Book, and there recorded the subject of their disagreement.